Van Gogh Collage

Van Gogh Collage

Description: In this activity, students create a background with tissue paper and oil pastels. They glue over top with mod podge to complete the night sky effect. Finally, they create and cut out a silhouette of a landscape to place over top of their background. This teaches students about Vincent Van Gogh's style of artwork and about using silhouettes to imitate objects with a lack of other detail. This is a great lesson to use for students in grades 3-5.

Extension: This type of premise could be used with many famous paintings and artists. For example, students working with Vermeer could use the lady with the pearl as an inspiration. Students could create multiple pictures of the same person in different environments by using one defining quality. They could do a variation of the silhouette so that the background of the picture is black and the silhouettes are the colorful part.